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sbt-coursier

sbt-coursier ensures one's dependencies are fetched via coursier rather than by sbt itself, that relies on its own custom version of Ivy. When properly set up (see below), coursier can also be used to fetch most sbt plugins. Note that sbt-coursier itself is still fetched by sbt. Also note that the JARs of sbt, when one launches sbt for the first time, are also still fetched by sbt itself.

It currently requires sbt 1.x. See coursier versions 1.0.x for sbt 0.13.x.

The sbt plugin can be enabled either on a per-project basis (recommended), or globally.

It mainly overrides the update, updateClassifiers, and updateSbtClassifiers tasks. It does not handle publishing for now.

Setup

Per project

No other plugin

Directly add sbt-coursier to project/plugins.sbt, with

addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % "2.0.0-RC2")

Along other plugins

Add sbt-coursier in the meta-build, by adding the following to project/project/plugins.sbt,

addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % "2.0.0-RC2")

This will use sbt-coursier to fetch sbt plugins from project/*.sbt. Then add sbt-coursier along the other plugins by adding the following to project/plugins.sbt,

addSbtCoursier

Globally

This method is not recommended. Adding plugins globally makes your builds less reproducible, as their behavior now depends on the global plugins set up on the machine they are run. On the other hand, this method is more straightforward than the above, as it applies to all projects at once.

Add the following to ~/.sbt/1.0/plugins/build.sbt,

addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % "2.0.0-RC2")

sbt Native Packager conflict

If you use sbt-native-packager and encounter a compile error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/vafer/jdeb/Console, there is a work around described in: #450.

Add the following to ~/.sbt/1.0/global.sbt,

// Work around for https://github.com/coursier/coursier/issues/450
classpathTypes += "maven-plugin"